Whan That Aprill(e)?

Author / Editor
Evans, Robert O.

Title
Whan That Aprill(e)?

Published
Notes and Queries 202 (1957): 234-37.

Description
Analyzes the meter of the opening line of CT (GP 1.1), focusing on renderings of “Aprill(e)” in manuscripts and printed editions, comparing it with meter elsewhere in CT, and arguing "that there is a strong possibility, even a probability, that Chaucer intended" the line "to be read as a regular decasyllable, perhaps with a trochaic substitution in the first foot."

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versificarion
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations